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White Channel Gravel alteration revisited
The White Channel Gravel (Pliocene) is the most important gold-bearing unit in the world famous Klondike goldfields of west-central Yukon. It is up to 46 m thick and consists of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Early Tertiary Sifton Range volcanic complex, southwestern Yukon
The early Tertiary magmatic episode in the northern Canadian Cordillera is linked to the restructuring of the Kula-North American plate system from orthogonal to oblique...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock geology at the boundary between Yukon-Tanana and Cassiar terranes,...
The Tummel fault zone, a northwest-trending belt of rocks of uncertain age and/or tectonic affinity, separates Paleozoic miogeoclinal strata of Cassiar Terrane from Yukon-Tanana...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleoproterozoic Bonnet Plume River intrusions: Evidence for a calc-alkaline...
The 1.71 Ga Bonnet Plume River intrusions (BPRI) and related volcanics are preserved only as clasts in the 1.60 Ga Wernecke breccias of Yukon that host iron-oxide copper gold...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of new gold discoveries in the Coffee Creek area, White Gold...
A new widespread, structurally controlled gold mineralizing system has been identified during the 2010 exploration drilling program at the Coffee Project, west-central Yukon....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative (southeastern Yukon), Part 1:...
The Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative, conducted jointly by the Geological Survey of Canada and Yukon Geology Program, comprised new geological mapping and till...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Lead isotopic constraints on the metallogeny of southern Wolf Lake,...
Southern Wolf Lake (105B), southeastern Teslin (105C) and northern Jennings River (104O) map areas contain a wide variety of styles of mineralization, including carbonate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Nature and origin of copper-gold mineralization at the Minto and Williams...
A new research project was begun in 2002, aimed at better understanding the nature and origin of copper-gold mineralization and its main host rocks at the Minto and Williams...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
YukonAge 2002: A database of isotopic age determinations for rock units from...
This product contains over 1500 age determinations derived from over 1100 rock samples from the Yukon Territory in a searchable, relational-database format. The age...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Structure and Stratigraphy of the MacMillan Fold Belt: Evidence for Devonian Faulting
This study describes the structural and stratigraphic setting of Devonian bedded barite and sedimentary exhalative lead-zinc-silver-barite deposits near MacMillan Pass in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary of the Kudz Ze Kayah Project, Volcanic Hosted Massive Sulphide...
The ABM polymetallic Volcanic Hosted Massive deposit underlies claims within the Kudz Ze Kayah project area. The deposit is a volcanic hosted massive sulphide body within a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary of DGGS investigations at Livengood, Alaska: Geology, mineral...
The results of the DGGS investigation at Livengood, Alaska include bedrock geologic maps, a surficial geologic map, a detailed prospect examination and analyses of about 2000...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The geology of the Rapid Creek-Big Fish River phosphatic iron formation...
The phosphatic iron formation under investigation shows some interesting characteristics. Aspects that set it apart from other phosphatic iron formations are: 1) coexistence of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The glacial history and placer gold potential of the north McQuesten River...
Glacial history reconstructions and geomorphic mapping in the North McQuesten River, Dublin Gulch, and Keno Hill map areas indicate a succession of less extensive glaciations....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Wernecke Breccias and Fe, Cu, U Mineralization: Quartet Mountain-Igor area (NTS 106E)
The "Wernecke Breccias" are enigmatic, but significant features of the Middle Proterozoic Wernecke Supergroup in the Wernecke and Ogilvie Mountains. This report describes the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Climatic conditions in the western and northern Cordillera during the last...
In the southern Cordillera, paleoecological evidence suggests that climate was variable, from cooler than present by up to 3°C, to possibly similar to modern during the Olympia...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Upper Triassic rocks at Hill 4308, Laberge map area, 105E, Yukon
Upper Triassic carbonate, volcanic and clastic rocks deposited in the Whitehorse Trough, a Mesozoic forearc basin, are well-exposed at Hill 4308. The deposition of these rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Experimental studies of coarse-grained sedimentation
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White channel gravel of the Klondike
The White Channel Gravel of the Klondike is an unconsolidated gravel preserved as erosional remnants lying on rock cut benches above younger streams. It contains important...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Clinton Creek asbestos deposit, Yukon Territory
Clinton Creek asbestos deposit is situated at 77 km northwest of Dawson City on Clinton Creek in Yukon. Yukon Metamorphic Complex of Ordovician to Devonian age covers most of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML